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so just one is a gentleman who is an optometrist in southern india and in the late 1970s he retired and ss retirement project he was about 57 and wanted to descend before his community. and so he decided he was going to try to address the problem of needless blindness due to cataracts. in the united states as an outpatient operation. you don't have people blind due to cataracts. and the rest of the world there's a hundred million people blind due to cataracts. so this is not a was no wanted to address. so we started the clinic in his home in yet another benson family members hope to make up this thing off the ground. forward not just one or two or three great ideas, but hundreds of innovations. tenacity of an entire community, global team of people, one of the folks who contributed to the eradication of smallpox. david greene. all these people built together to build the hospital and to this day, the hospital has secured 3 million people of blindness. i do imagine the entire washington metro area of about 3 million people. imagine all those people blind. now they can see. that is not un
so just one is a gentleman who is an optometrist in southern india and in the late 1970s he retired and ss retirement project he was about 57 and wanted to descend before his community. and so he decided he was going to try to address the problem of needless blindness due to cataracts. in the united states as an outpatient operation. you don't have people blind due to cataracts. and the rest of the world there's a hundred million people blind due to cataracts. so this is not a was no wanted to...
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Nov 25, 2012
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people in india know and as i know when i'm in india the covering made of cotton is a very good choice in the heats because it's very comfortable, breeds easily and it keeps dust and at least some of the rays of the sun off of one's skin. it surely clear that the amount of skin displayed in typical u.s. female dress would need a dermatologist approved lenin fact i'm paying the price of years of not thinking about that. i need to be checked by a dermatologist every few months now. but more pointedly with the arguably , uncomfortable and unhealthy female clothing. why do we have to begin with high heel and platform shoes as delicious as they are an enjoyable and lovely as they are but now high heels are associated with majority norms in major spanish, italian and french exports so they draw no ire. in general the state is right i think when it limits its regulatory interventions into clothing to making sure that clothing sold to children is flameproof and without harmful chemicals and that other gross health risks are avoided that on the whole, women in particular are allowed and even en
people in india know and as i know when i'm in india the covering made of cotton is a very good choice in the heats because it's very comfortable, breeds easily and it keeps dust and at least some of the rays of the sun off of one's skin. it surely clear that the amount of skin displayed in typical u.s. female dress would need a dermatologist approved lenin fact i'm paying the price of years of not thinking about that. i need to be checked by a dermatologist every few months now. but more...
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Nov 3, 2012
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so just one is a gentleman who was an optometrist in southern india and in the late 1970s he retired and does his retirement project, he was about 57 and he wanted to do something for his community. and so he decided he was going to try to address the problem is needless blindness due to cataracts. in the united states of the minor outpatient operation. you don't have people blind to the cataracts. and the rest of the world are super hundred million people blind due to cataracts. this is something that brought her view was known wanted to address. so he started the clinic and is held and he had a sudden basden family members helped him and he got the thing the ground. anyway, come forward not just one or two or three great ideas, but hundreds of innovations. tenacity of an entire community, an entire global of people, one of the folks who contributed to the eradication of smallpox. cannot you put your name david greene. all these people work together to build the arvind iyer of hospital. to this day, the hospital has killed her than 3 million people of blindness. now come to you imag
so just one is a gentleman who was an optometrist in southern india and in the late 1970s he retired and does his retirement project, he was about 57 and he wanted to do something for his community. and so he decided he was going to try to address the problem is needless blindness due to cataracts. in the united states of the minor outpatient operation. you don't have people blind to the cataracts. and the rest of the world are super hundred million people blind due to cataracts. this is...
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Nov 18, 2012
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peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not forget the progressives' view of educated elites and by their definitions were close to, quote, unworthy of life, unquote. but these trends would marinate for a decade. in the meantime, american prosperity continued spreading to the rest of the civilized world. american advertisers, film, even literature became highly desired in europe. it's another irony at this time, american movies followed a production code that emphasized universal american themes of patriotism. god, fair play, and they avoided sensationalism, sexual situations and other taboo vices. american movies sold american sensualism including, quote, puritanical mormonism, as one put it. they occasionally made fun of those values through the work of buster keaton and charlie chaplin, but this was never meant to totally undermine the system itself. by 1930 the u.s. had 18,000 movie houses and compared to france's 2400 and britain's 3,000. europe simply could not compete with hollywood, and as long as hollywood sold american exceptionalism, europeans wanted to be l
peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not forget the progressives' view of educated elites and by their definitions were close to, quote, unworthy of life, unquote. but these trends would marinate for a decade. in the meantime, american prosperity continued spreading to the rest of the civilized world. american advertisers, film, even literature became highly desired in europe. it's another irony at this time, american movies followed a production code that emphasized...
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Nov 24, 2012
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is point was the transformation of the world economy lift poor people in china and india into the middle class and one american drops out of the middle class, that is not such a bad trade, 4-1. i spoke to a cfo of a u.s. technology company and this is a person with a charming and lovely life story, his parents were immigrants and he told me his parents told him and his brother when they immigrated that they were temporarily for. imagine that, temporarily poor and sure enough complete rock stars, both of them went to new york. and the mass club, one brother in silicon valley and another is derivative on wall street. the technology cfo, his parents were really angry at him because he dropped out of a ph.d. program in applied math at stanford having gone to harvard to start becoming plutocrats. very hard-working guy, did smart, did great, this is what he said about the american middle-class. we are demand higher paycheck than the rest of the world. if you are going to demand ten times the paycheck you need to deliver ten times the value. it sounds harsh but maybe people of the middle-class
is point was the transformation of the world economy lift poor people in china and india into the middle class and one american drops out of the middle class, that is not such a bad trade, 4-1. i spoke to a cfo of a u.s. technology company and this is a person with a charming and lovely life story, his parents were immigrants and he told me his parents told him and his brother when they immigrated that they were temporarily for. imagine that, temporarily poor and sure enough complete rock...
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Nov 11, 2012
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what was going in india at that time was not an islamic buddy in the. one important aspect of that was to raise the issue of authenticity. what was an authentic indian, anti-odds was only the hand experience of india was authentically indian. and what that meant was all the minorities was the largest minority among the minority. were in some way an authentic. i found that very annoying. and so i thought i would take a very small minority, which is a south indian jewish community. and then create an even smaller minority by having somebody from that community mary into a south indian catholic family, thus creating a catholic-a jewish individuals probably a minority of one person in a country of a billion people. and then show that you could actually grow the whole experience of india out of that one person. you know, so that everybody in indian is authentically indian. that's what it wanted to say. and not just any particular devotional group. [applause] >> i mean, the novel came out of that desire to rescue what it was to an indian from the logic of thi
what was going in india at that time was not an islamic buddy in the. one important aspect of that was to raise the issue of authenticity. what was an authentic indian, anti-odds was only the hand experience of india was authentically indian. and what that meant was all the minorities was the largest minority among the minority. were in some way an authentic. i found that very annoying. and so i thought i would take a very small minority, which is a south indian jewish community. and then...
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Nov 17, 2012
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places like brazil and india where there's a big social agenda because they are developing. in southern europe, northern europe or different forms, in northern europe, the government believes in a strong social safety nets, believe in paying for health care, believe in playing a role in determining what businesses succeed or fail and yet those governments have budgets that are balanced and growing faster than we are and creating more jobs than we are. we have to be a little bit careful when we as we sometimes do in the united states that are high horse and say we understand capitalism, actually what is going on in the world is a competition between different versions and if our version produces more in the quality and less growth is seen as less fair, and others are seen as more fair and are producing more growth, who do you think is going to win that argument? >> host: a lot of people would say the northern european countries are socialist. is socialism a term that is outdated? >> guest: i think it is. let's take an example that is big in the election campaign. car companie
places like brazil and india where there's a big social agenda because they are developing. in southern europe, northern europe or different forms, in northern europe, the government believes in a strong social safety nets, believe in paying for health care, believe in playing a role in determining what businesses succeed or fail and yet those governments have budgets that are balanced and growing faster than we are and creating more jobs than we are. we have to be a little bit careful when we...
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Nov 18, 2012
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for breaking a law in the india. those are the kind of stories we write about. >> how come we haven't heard about that before? >> some of them you have heard. one the case of john and judy. they were selling bun anies in missouri. they fined $95,000 for having a wrong permit. the government said you can pay on the website. if you don't pay in thirty days you'll owe $3.1 billion. it's the kind of stuff the government is doing to bully people, and we frankly think it needs to stop. they're doing the same with confiscating people's land and saying you can't build on it because it's a wetland. even though there isn't a pond or stream on the land. >> as a senator, what can you do to change policy? >> we look to some of the things, we now conducted legislation to try to fix them. on the wetlands, we say, the clean water act says you can't discharge pollutants in to navigable water. your background is not a 1/2 gaunt water and dirt is not a pollutant. we try to redefine the clean water act. a woman in southern mississippi g
for breaking a law in the india. those are the kind of stories we write about. >> how come we haven't heard about that before? >> some of them you have heard. one the case of john and judy. they were selling bun anies in missouri. they fined $95,000 for having a wrong permit. the government said you can pay on the website. if you don't pay in thirty days you'll owe $3.1 billion. it's the kind of stuff the government is doing to bully people, and we frankly think it needs to stop....